Thursday - July 30

Run

1h 44m 31s

12.14 miles

08m 37s /Mi

Sport

Stretching

20m

I got my long run in for the week. I was about six minutes shy of what I needed to do, but I just didn't have much left. What is interesting is that for training run I'm pretty close to beating my best half mary time. I think next week may try to set my PR. My legs are pretty sore.

I took a half day and went down to the bike store in Livermore. My wife is amazing! even though we have 5 children that need food, shelter and clothing - I bought a new bike - yes, im selfish but hey - you only live once. The last run on sentence was written by my dear old wife. Ok, dear, young wife.

Tuesday - July 28

Swim class--focused on tempo drills. Interesting, as I widen my stroke, my kick becomes seperate from the stroke. I need to watch for this and monitor.

Day two of race prep mode and I'm really tired. I think only 74 more days to go.

I did my track workout at Acalanes track while the football players were doing their workouts. Boy them seemed bigger when I was getting thrown into lockers. Today was strides day --- 8 strides 30' strids (paces were 5:22, 5:22, 5:13, 5:46, 5:29, 5:30, 5:37 ,5:15)

Now I move to race prep mode. My volume is going to shoot up and I'm going to have tons of two a days. Oh joy.

Week's goals: 1. Week 10 - Continuing to Build 2. Focus Point: Aero position durability and skills. How comfortabe is your bike's cockpit? Can you stay there all day? Any tweaks you want to make? Do them this week... 3. To keep things interesting, consider looking for a new weekend bike route.

Saturday - July 25

Bike

3h 36m 10s

60.82 miles

16.88 Mi/hr

Great ride with Forward Motion. I blew past them at Sunol and couldn't find them. Then I got lost in Livermore. I ended up catching up with The TNT Iron Team on their pain ride for the season-- 2 hour ride, 1 hour run, repeat 3 times.